School of Art, Media, and Technology

Illustration Dept. Events

The NY Comics & Picture Story Symposium is a weekly symposium for artist/writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. at which to present and critique current work. The… Read More

Collaborators, translators and friends of the legendary cartoonist Hugo Pratt discuss his work and place in comics history. Panelists: Fiore Sireci teaches Anglo-American social history as well as writing in the… Read More

Lauren Redniss‘s work combines reporting, historical research, artwork and design. She will speak about her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future. Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100… Read More

Paul Tumey on Forgotten Funnies: Images of America in the Comics of Percy Winterbottom, Dwig, and Ving Fuller. Forgotten today, the comics of these three cartoonists were widely published and enjoyed… Read More

Parsons School of Design’s Illustration BFA presents Riad Sattouf, a bestselling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Libya and now lives in Paris, here in New York to discuss and… Read More

“Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime,” wrote Zadie Smith. The artist behind the comic-book series Optic Nerve, which he began self-publishing at the… Read More

About AMT

In our dynamic world, art reflects conditional reality, and design contributes to further development of global societies. At Parsons School of Design, rigorous practice and critical scholarship prepares students to become leading agents of commentary and change.